Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Stashbusting plan

This is just a small portion of my stash. I spent an hour in the attic yesterday, intending to just pull out the yarn for a couple of projects. I'm distractable, though, so I ended up digging through boxes, tubs, and trunks of fabric & fiber. Fun, fun, fun! I found bags of bargains I'd forgotten about. Wow, it was just as much fun as the shopping the first time around, but I didn't have to spend any more money. I ended up with this big pile at the bottom of the attic ladder.

Wow, what a mess! I left it there for a while. Then I tossed it all into a big box. And thought about how frustrating it would still be to pull out a skein and start the whole process all over again...you know the questions...was the pattern in the book on the shelf or in an issue of Cast-on? And wasn't there more somewhere?

.My solution? Zip-lock bags! I packaged the yarn & patterns together into kits, then sorted the kits by type. One box for sweaters. Another for vests. A third for hats, hands & foot stuff. I'm so proud (and somewhat unsettled by the thought that I may be turning into my grandmother.)

7 Comments:

Good for you - organizing like that. I think it will make it easier to end up with the finished products... And you'll only be like "that grandma" if your grandkids inherit the untouched boxes of organized yarn...

Kudos to you, I have the time to do that , now that the kids are back in school. If only that couch weren't so inviting after the youngest gets on the bus. I will be forced to organize it here soon enough, when we start painting uhg!